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[mika]

Hehe now that's a classic!

I must admit I love debates like this. One's where it's a gray area and everyone has an opinion. They always make me think and re-evaluate things sometimes.

Well, I'll list all the archive formats I know of and you can decide which is / was how (good or bad).
RAR, ZIP, ARJ, LHA, UC2
Arent that many as you can see. It's because I started to use WinRar immediately after I saw it the first time and gave all others up. It had the best compression then, even better than UC2 and it still has the best around (of which I know). Also it's most user-friendly of all before and now. My clear favorite.

[Ioncannon]

there is also ace and umm the stuff it extension (a macintosh compressing tool)

[Eagle of Fire]

The point of archiving games is that it takes less place. So, if rar is the best in term of compression, the question should not even be asked: switch to rar!

[TheVoid]

Yup, would be nice....but kinda difficult, if you mean CHANGE ALL GAMES ARCHIVES into rar....

I personally use WinAce, and rather like it, seen it also deal with RAR and much other compression formats.

The funny is, my license expired 429 days ago :whistle:

Edit: I just said a number, now checked....524 days :blink:


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[Eagle of Fire]

hahaha, about the same thing here

Just like we would pay for a "licence" if the program keep running... :blink:

Anyways, I would be willing to change games from .zip to .rar. After all, all it takes is a little processor power and my computer often have large amount of these sitting in a corner of the PC box...

[unclefester]

I have 5.99 gb disk space so every time I get a game I recompress it to rar with zipgenius but that's too time consuming


P.S. to Kosta
I would prefer .ogg maybe slow but much more space-efficient (My precious (disk space ))

[Braindead]

Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Sep 25 2004, 07:54 PM
The point of archiving games is that it takes less place. So, if rar is the best in term of compression, the question should not even be asked: switch to rar!

I'm going a bit off-topic as this is not related to this site directly and also on dangerous terrain since it's touching the subject of warez.

First let me say that I don't approve warez but the thing I think is strange is that games released by the warez-groups such as myth/class/etc... always stick to using ace2-compression while rar3-compression is better for most data in many cases.

That being said they use also Uharc and an mp3-encoder/decoder for compressing multimedia-data but that is a pain to extract as it takes a loooong while... :whistle:

[mika]

Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Sep 26 2004, 12:00 AM
Anyways, I would be willing to change games from .zip to .rar. After all, all it takes is a little processor power and my computer often have large amount of these sitting in a corner of the PC box...*

Takes a bit more than that - You first need to dowload the games, and then upload them again. I hope you've got loads of very fast bandwidth at your disposal, as some of the games aren't that small!

[aaberg]

Why is this topic discussed so intensive. Why is it discussed at all. We all know, that Kosta ain't going to change the compression format! <_<